FAA to Integrate Alaskan Capstone into Its National ADS-B Program

The FAA plans to integrate its Alaskan Capstone project into its national ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast) program.

The six-year old undertaking, designed to improve aviation safety in Alaska, primarily by using ADS-B to provide radar-like surveillance in remote mountain regions where radar couldn't be practicably deployed, has been credited for reducing the accident rate there, and providing valuable data.

The agency says its action shouldn't affect Capstone jobs in Alaska, since all of its work force there will continue to work for the FAA in comparable positions that it intends to keep in the state.  12-26-2006.

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